Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems) - Softcover

Koza, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026252791X ISBN 13: 9780262527910

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1992

Synopsis

In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs.

Genetic programming may be more powerful than neural networks and other machine learning techniques, able to solve problems in a wider range of disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs. Genetic Programming contains a great many worked examples and includes a sample computer code that will allow readers to run their own programs.In getting computers to solve problems without being explicitly programmed, Koza stresses two points: that seemingly different problems from a variety of fields can be reformulated as problems of program induction, and that the recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a way to search the space of possible computer programs for a highly fit individual computer program to solve the problems of program induction. Good programs are found by evolving them in a computer against a fitness measure instead of by sitting down and writing them.

About this title

About the Author

John R. Koza is Consulting Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Review

John Koza has discovered a general and robust method of evolving computer programs that is effective over a breathtaking range of problems in applied mathematics, control engineering, and artificial intelligence.

―Stewart W. Wilson, The Rowland Institute for Science

The research reported in this book is a tour de force. For the first time, since the idea was bandied about in the '40s and early '50s, we have a non-trivial, nontailored set of examples of automatic programming.

―John Holland, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Edition details

• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 026252791X
• ISBN 13: 9780262527910
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 836